Northern District of Georgia - News

March 30,
2015 - In 1987, Ira Anthony Boudreaux was convicted in
the Eastern District of Louisiana of Conspiracy and Extortion for
the aggravated kidnapping of a 3 year-old boy. The child was
eventually recovered safely after being abandoned in a sugar cane
field, and Boudreaux received a 40-year sentence and is on parole
until 2032. In March 2012, Boudreaux violated the conditions of his
parole and was sentenced to 14 months.

June 05, 2014
- Eric Jerome Powell was apprehended after being found guilty during
trial and failing to appear for the reading of the verdict. Powell,
along with codefendants Carlos Powell and Earnest Page, were three of
twelve individuals who had been charged in an indictment with violating
federal drug laws which included conspiracy to distribute in excess of
30 kilograms of heroin, 12 kilograms of cocaine, 1000 pounds of
marijuana and laundering in excess of $21 million in U.S. currency.

March 14, 2014
- On February 20, Kenneth Darnell Smith was located and apprehended by
the Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force in Miami after being on the run
for five years. Smith was wanted by the DeKalb County Police Department
for Murder and by the U.S. Marshals Service in Atlanta for Violating the
Conditions of his Supervised Release.

January 23,
2014 - The U.S. Marshals from Northern District of Georgia,
Gainesville office, with the assistance of Gainesville Police
Department, arrested a foreign fugitive who is charged with Aggravated
Homicide in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Marcos Trejo Villeda has been a
fugitive since 2011 when he was indicted for the murder of two
individuals in the town of Xilitla.